Four more questions in the #SYW challenge. If you drink coffee, how do you like it best? Hot, cold, iced, with cream, with sugar or black as black? I like my coffee weak and milky so the arrival in the UK of the latte from coffee shops like Costa and Starbucks was a big event….

Four more questions in the #SYW challenge. What is your favourite beverage? Without doubt my favourite beverage is a latte. I like them weak and with only a thin layer of foam which can be a hard balance to find. What is your interpretation of ‘The Golden Rule”? Are there ramifications to breaking it? Every…

Autumn around here can be dreich* and wet or it can be full of sunshine and fiery colours. So far this year, we’re having the dreich kind but the other day, I managed to dodge the rain long enough to get out for a walk through local woods. And I was amazed by the variety…

Share Your World (SYW) is a weekly writing blog challenge hosted by Melanie at Sparks From a Combustible Mind which invites answers to four questions. For this week’s #SYW challenge, the questions, and my answers, are: Are You A Better Listener or Speaker? As is often the case, there is no single answer other than ‘it…

Hello and welcome to my first post. I’m Ella. I’m a writer and aspiring author. I’ve been working on my first novel for what seems like ages and the finish line, while not within immediate reach, is at last within sight through my binoculars. I pay close attention to advice from more experienced authors and…

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